Hallo, ik ben Inke Gootjes, ik ben een toegewijde en gemotiveerde professional met een sterke achtergrond in strategische verkoop, nieuwe bedrijfsontwikkeling, klantacquisitie en organisatorisch leiderschap. Beschikken over meer dan 6 jaar succesvolle ervaring met het adviseren over veelzijdige projecten, het plannen en implementeren van effectieve promotiecampagnes en het faciliteren van winstgevende relaties met een breed scala aan klanten en belangrijke zakenpartners.
This is a new release over at KOS (Kingdom Organic Seeds) in the Gamblers’ section, a very worthy addition to any garden, I think. The genetic/expressions floating around in the La Smush are potentially epic, in my opinion. The price is right as well. I’ll provide a link at the end of this article.
In the photo above you can see the dark and deadly La Smush seeds. Making this hybrid was partly opportunistic. I had been toying around with something to recombine with my beloved Skyanchor genetics.
The Riffraff Thai was always a top potential contender on my short-list for the male breeder genes for the Skyanchor. While inbreeding the Riffraff Thai I got an extremely capable male, seriously, a superior individual. I kept him around in clone form while I brought up the Skyanchor plants. I selected 2 Skyanchor females to recombine with my stellar male Riffraff Thai. Let me show you some more baybee…
The Fast Deets on La Smush
The Skyanchor maternal P1 is No Slouch When It Comes to Yields Either
FLAVORS/SMELLS: Fully Sweet and Sour with Strong Candy and Acrid Honey Oil
BAG APPEAL: Very Exotic, Really Frosty, Super Smelly, and Tremendously Purple Buds
ONSET TIME: 5 Minutes
LENGTH OF EFFECTS: 2 Hours+
MEDICAL PROPERTIES: Unknown
The Riffraff Thai Females (paternal P1 breeder genes) are Extremely Vigorous Growing Ass Kickers
The Rundown—Hierarchy Etc.
MALE BREEDER DEETS: I had recently inbred my Riffraff Thai line of beans, and while selecting the breeders for that project I came across a truly exceptional male. Hearty and vigorous to the max, and seriously purple. Some of the Riffraff Thai high-type qualities have always reminded me of the old-school Champagne indica. The Riffraff doesn’t really hold any super Thai-like qualities and is more of a deadly potent and tasty combo that yields really big purple buds. I kept the male in clone form until I had my Skyanchor breeders all set to rock and roll.
The Mysterious and Deadly Skyanchor Maternal P1 Breeder Genetics
FEMALE BREEDER(S) DEETS: The Skyanchor is a superior weirdo strain. A cross made by me some years ago, where I selected a wonderful Bogglegum (from BOG) male, and a clone-only variety called Purple Salem Indica (PSI) I acquired from an old friend named Keith, in Salem, OR. The Skyanchor is very purple and a master of severe resin production, along with sweet candy like red Tootsie Pops and Honey Oil—very pungent indeed—extreme terpene power and resin production. The Skyanchor, also reminds me a lot of the old Champagne indica from the days of yore, heh heh.
Growing Information
GROWER: The Rev
The only small issue these may encounter is their distaste for pH ranges below 6.7ish. This is due to the landrace Deep Chunk genetics within the paternal P1 of La Smush, the Riffraff Thai. Great tolerance to higher temperatures and to dryer conditions overall can be reasonably counted on.
Please do not sprout these on a 24/0 photoperiod and I recommend a photoperiod of 16/8 for sprouting and until 30 days old, then 18/6 is fine. Never use a 24/0 photoperiod. Always allow plants (or clones of plants; and clones are the same age that the seed plant would be no matter how many clones of clones) to get at least 55 days old from sprouting, before starting to flower for maximum resin production. You should always grow organically/all-naturally for the full appreciation of natural smells and flavors.
The Paternal P1 Breeder for La Smush, the Riffraff Thai Females are Grapefruit and Honey Oil Terpenes
Afterword with Rev
This recombination (La Smush) has many very favorable expressions rolling around and having that very dominant purple expression ride along with a very potent resin expression—wicked resin production levels—almost as a co-dependent, is a beautiful thing. All too often those hard-core purple expressions ride along with lower potency (resin production) as a co-dependent-ish, and I have seen this a ton in the past. Nice building blocks for breeders here.
To me, most indica varieties are hammers that lack complexity. That’s not to say I don’t dig that sometimes, just not usually as my go-to smoke. The Skyanchor, like the old Champagne, are both weirdo indica varieties that not only knock the crap out of you—LoL—but actually get you very-very high, and not so much “stoned”. You know what I mean, stoned is like, “drooling on your shoes” … very high is like your mind and body are jamming through the universe at high speeds while you do things, with a huge grin. Simplified, but you get my drift yeah?
Today’s puzzle is all over the place—LoL—some La Smush stuff, nostalgic TV, and cannabis related. I would say today’s puzzle is, fairly easy as these go. Cheers and have fun. The key is in a link right below the puzzle if you needs it—wink.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is reporting that geezers on ganja are doing better than those who abstain, quoting the Israeli journal Frontiers in Medicine. According to the journal, Israeli researchers concluded that elderly patients who used cannabis medicinally experienced a greater quality of life and a reduced need for medications.
The researchers looked at elderly usage of federally allowed medical cannabis products over a period of six months. The study involved around 10,000 qualified cannabis patients. The participants averaged 55 years of age and were likely to have been diagnosed with a range of conditions, listing either pain, cancer, or post-traumatic stress.
Most of the patients surveyed indicated that cannabis was highly effective in addressing their symptoms. 91 percent of the patients suffering from post-traumatic stress said that cannabis was effective at treating their conditions, with 84 percent of those suffering from inflammatory bowel disease, and 78 percent of chronic pain patients agreeing.
Israeli law allows physicians to grant authorization for qualified patients to access infused products and cannabis flower from licensed dispensaries. NORML goes on to say that, consistent with other studies, the majority of the subjects said that their overall quality of life was positively impacted during the course of the study.
Consistent with previous studies, a good portion of the patients substituted their pharmaceutical medications with weed, something that many people have been doing in greater society as many people self-medicate with cannabis. Nearly forty percent of the patients who used opioids stopped using them after treatment with cannabis. Of those who were using prescription antidepressants and drugs to treat epilepsy twenty-five percent stopped their medications, with seventeen percent of those suffering from anxiety doing the same.
As boomers age, we can expect to see more and more seasoned citizens turn to cannabis to manage the symptoms of their health conditions. And as we age just feeling relaxed and Irie can be a very good thing. So spark it up, Grandma, the herb is good for your health!
Equity means fair and impartial, but in many states across the country, the actual and factual definition seems non-existent in social equity programs. In the United States cannabis industry social equity scene, social equity seems more of a tool that allows those that already have money and access to have more money and access off the backs of those most impacted by the war on drugs.
What is Social Equity?
When we hear “social equity,” a couple of ideas come to mind to explain exactly what it is and how it impacts the cannabis industry. The term is supposed to imply impartiality and fairness, specifically in policy, with special attention to systems and the types of outcomes that derive from them. The term, unfortunately, has become a bane in the reality of cannabis, with many non-white and marginalized business owners often left holding a nug with no lighter and no fire in sight.
Similar to the civil rights movement (or any movement meant to assist disenfranchised members of this country in seemingly any aspect involving wealth and money, which equates to freedom) the language has been used, the dates set, but the action has not been carried out in true integrity, for sake of its name. Equity eludes those to whom it is promised. At the same time, the whiter or richer end of the spectrum profits and elevates astronomically to the top of the cannabis earning charts, driving a further divide in wealth disparity across the United States. This translates to staggering numbers and reports of a system failing its proposed beneficiaries once again.
The MCBA Social Equity in Cannabis Report
On February 10, 2022, the Minority Cannabis Business Association released “Social Equity 2.0”, an extensive, 38-page report detailing the truth in numbers. Many of us had surface knowledge of social equity and little understanding of what was actually taking place between cannabis license hopefuls and the process to licensure. The social equity report and interview are enlightening in a way that helps make sense of the questions most of us have:
Where are all the businesses that were supposed to flourish under the promise of equity?
Where are the black and brown faces?
Why are the same types of candidates constantly winning in the wealth markets?
While there have been a few winners on the “minority” front in cannabis, there have been too many losses characterized and quantified in the details of SE2.0 to confidently say social equity has been working as intended.
A Sit Down with the MCBA President, About the Social Equity in Cannabis Report
The Q & A with MCBA President Kaliko Castille, was led by Dom Hart, and focuses on the social equity in cannabis report.
Social Equity 2.0 is a reporting document compiled by the MCBA, that identifies social equity breakdown in 38 of 50 states that currently have cannabis legalization in either medical, adult-use or both. Written in the language of numbers and political jargon, the document is designed to expose the general public to the realities of social equity while also educating both the public and political persons who should know the cannabis industry in real-time.
The following is a transcription of the interview between Kaliko Castille and Dom “Goddess Dom” Hart, which took place on 2/8/2022. The conversation has been edited for clarity. The bold text = Dom, the italic text = Kaliko Castille.
Peace and Love. Thank you for taking the time to meet with me today! I’m excited to dive into this report!
“Thank you for joining me! Did you get a chance to look over the document?”
I did! There is so much information! As I went through it, I compared my notes to the one-page to make sure I was understanding correctly. So what I gathered is that the systems set in place in the name of social equity are not working, so poorly that it’s almost as if there is no social equity in place. There are still disparities based on race and economic status that have created more barriers to equity in cannabis.
“In general, there are a lot of well-intentioned folks in the movement who are doing the actual work on the ground of social equity political fronts. They are doing their best but are ultimately running up against a political system that for decades has tried not to learn anything about cannabis. And now we are in a short window, not only trying to teach them about cannabis but to teach them how it overlaps with systemic racial issues in America.
Our work is cut out for us. This conversation really started in 2015, when you think about it, so only 6-7 years into the conversation. Whereas before 2015, we were accepting whatever legalization bill we could get through the door because we just wanted to move the ball forward. But now it’s not IF with legalization; it’s WHEN. So now we have to be more methodical about how we write these policies.
Oakland passed the first social equity law back in 2015, and it has done some great work. The very first of its kind… but there are a lot of lessons that have been learned since then. This report gives us a holistic view of the industry and says all of these policies are well-intentioned, but what’s the math? How many states have license caps, which is not good for equity? How many have direct funding applicants? The report looks at not only the social equity provisions but the broader aspect of legalization and all the policies that ultimately impact social equity. We printed the seven takeaways one-pager to help explain why we are doing this on a generalized scale.
We are trying to educate folks. Best intentioned efforts have been awesome. Now, where are we at? Obviously, we all know the cannabis industry is not equitable, that we’re not where we want to be but in order for us to change that with policymakers, we needed to have the data that says, “This is where the states have tried…this is where the states have failed..we see the data, so we know what we want to fix.”
This will be rolling into us relaunching our new model legislation. We did our first state model legislation in 2017, and we are going to update that now for the first time after all of these learnings. So we’ll be able to take all this data and roll it into a tangible policy that we can get introduced to statehouses and say, “Hey, if you want to do legalization the ‘right’ way, this is the way you do it in order to have more equitable outcomes.”
So this isn’t just for information; your work is going towards writing another bill that can hopefully replace the one currently in place. The numbers are for policymakers because that’s the type of information that will grasp their attention. You’ve done the work that they don’t believe will be done, so now they have no choice but to make changes, hence the public release of the bill.
“Right, Everyone wants to reinvent the wheel, but if we can save them time and say listen… And I’ll use an example stat from the report I want to highlight, not even about ownership but talks about access to the industry.
Only 34 of the 38 states that have legal cannabis, whether medical or adult use, 34 states currently bar candidates for ownership from having felony convictions. It literally goes for the core of what we are trying to do, which is get people from the “legacy market” involved in the regulated market place and 34 states are banning those folks from ownership. So, if we ever want to get to an equitable place while trying to transition legacy to the regulated market, we have to do away with things like that that are ultimately keeping people out of something that we now consider legal.
There’s the aspect of trying to transition legacy market businesses owned by people convicted for cannabis crimes, but there’s also the aspect of funding. Many of these people are not coming from traditional business backgrounds; they don’t have access to traditional bank loans as cannabis business owners, and even if they did, Black people are less likely to procure loans over white entrepreneurs.
Further, only 8 of the 38 states that have medical cannabis (out of 50 states) provide access to application and fee waivers. If we are trying to [empower cannabis entrepreneurs] who come from non-traditional backgrounds and don’t have capital or startup funds or bank access, one of the simple things to do is waive fees for people so that there’s one less barrier to entry into the market.”
This is going to blow folks out of the water if they don’t already know what’s going on. A few of the companies I have interviewed have spoken about the social equity aspect of their journey and how getting into the market is difficult; there is often no direction. (Some parts of this, with the blocks to entry and the access to information and funding, remind me of parts of the civil rights movement, like prior to the voting rights act).
“In an abstract way, you can liken it to parts of the civil rights movement. You can compare the licensing structures & fees to a poll tax. It’s very much about access and keeping people out simply because they don’t have the money.
If you think about it from a political standpoint, conservatives always talk about wanting to be pro-business. But a lot of what we are dealing with hurts small businesses. We are making it harder for small business owners to get involved in the economy. Remove race from the conversation for a second; just talk about making it easy for small businesses to get involved. We shouldn’t be making it hard by having fees that make it hard for any general business owner to get into the industry.
Everyone should have access to the tools that help to provide generation wealth for their families. Now add on the extra layer of race on top of it. There’s absolutely no excuse for us to keep those barriers in place. What we are literally doing is attempting to repair some of the damage from the War on Drugs; some of the ways these laws are written are just extending that by a different name.
The same way Michelle Alexander wrote about the New Jim Crow, we call this “Social Equity 2.0” because we want it to actually change rather than just another War on Drugs 2.0, which is us continuing to crack down on the legacy market operators. California and Oregon, traditional export states, people send their weed over. Now that there are limited states, there’s more weed than they can do with because the limited legal market makes it harder. The market here has always grown crops in the west and sold back east. Thinking about the economy, we should make it easier for people in any state to do whatever business wherever they want to do it. It should be a truly free market.
For example, license caps; a lot of companies (will lobby to) get a cap written into the law so that a certain number of companies get the licensing. Take New Jersey, which will only allow about 50 licenses to go through, none of which will go to a black entrepreneur. What’s happening is they are ARTIFICIALLY creating a necessity for license caps.
There’s no cap on the number of coffee shops that can be opened in New Jersey. Caffeine is a drug that kills more folks than cannabis, but there is no cap on the number of coffee shops that can open state to state. But in cannabis, there is a limit, which means the licenses become more valuable. If you have 1 million people with cannabis businesses and only 50 people get the licenses, then those 50 businesses become more valuable, which brings in the large capital to invest in those people, and ultimately moves all the black and brown folks out because they don’t have access to that market.
And that’s where you see the game being played. A lot of people will invest in a social equity applicant or even team up with them and end up screwing them out of the partnership agreement, to where ultimately the white owner ends up coming out on top, but they use that black or brown person to get the social equity license. Then they are able to flip that license for 10x, 20x what it’s worth because of the limited market in the limited license state.
With unlimited licensing, that means if you just have the money and have the skillset, you’d play the game, and some would win, some would lose, and it would be based on your merits, not just connections or because of the cap.”
You’re bringing together so many of the stories that I have heard from companies that have gone into different aspects of the cannabis industry. Obviously, they can’t disclose all the details because of litigation issues, but they’re getting into business with these investors who seem genuine, and then they lose everything, having the rug snatched up from under them. I’ve been hearing a few startup stories like this, and thankfully they follow up with success, but clearly, there are too many that haven’t. It’s frustrating.
“Yeah, absolutely, it’s frustrating, and unfortunately, it’s real life. It happens to plenty of us! Even I started a dispensary in 2013 in the *gray market in Oregon. We had an investor who gave us money, and we ended up losing out on a technicality with our license. The third partner tried to throw me under the bus with the investor and said it was my fault that we lost out on our license. Now I’m the only brown person in this partnership.
Luckily the investor partner came and told me what this other dude was saying. It ended up working out that way, we didn’t get our license, but I also didn’t end up getting tossed out of the business. But that’s the sort of stuff that happens, and other people aren’t so lucky.”
I’m sorry to hear that. I’m just connecting the dots of all that I have heard this past year. Taking all that you are saying in—
“Looking back to this report and speaking of connecting the dots. New Jersey and the northeast are in a position where 17 of 18 adult-use states basically allow for co-location of at least one adult license. This means that if you’re in the medical market fast, the steps taken to get into the adult-use market are shorter. These medical programs are the most inequitable, so if you allow one of these medical cannabis facilities to have first chance at a license, it’s like putting the medical facility on steroids and cementing the inequities in the market.”
It makes it feel like this whole thing is a setup.
“Yeah, well, what we have to understand is that the United States does not operate outside of the laws of capitalism. And this is especially tough for those of us in the cannabis movement because most of us lean a little anti-capitalist or have gotten the short end of the stick. We’d rather see things NOT go the way they always have gone, so we are trying to insert something into the conversation that interrupts the natural order of things.
Capitalism IS limited licensing, merging, and acquisition, with only a few getting the pieces of the pie. That’s the system we are fighting against outside of the political system we are also fighting. It’s hard as a movement to remove ourselves from the capitalism conversation when we are trying to disrupt the natural order of American capitalism.”
This is essentially flipping not only the cannabis industry on its head but other systems in place in the United States.
“If you look at it from a pure political people-powered movement, amidst conversation of voting rights, since we are in the year 2022, the war on drugs. The linchpin of it has been marijuana, which is how it’s been able to help lock up hundreds of thousands of Black and Brown people. That is what has literally cut off the economic ability of those families and communities to build generational wealth and have upward mobility both socially and politically.
So if cannabis is the linchpin to the war on drugs, and the war on drugs has been the number one way we’ve been able to maintain the social order from segregation til now, then flipping cannabis and making it truly equitable means that we are reversing decades of systemic racism because we are giving people access to the economy and access to growing their communities, in a way we are replanting the growth of the black and brown communities that have been purposely and systemically cut off due to the war on drugs.”
Turning the soil.
“When you have economic power, then you have political power. So, if we can get black and brown folks access to economic power through social equity by actually doing them the right way, then the next step is political power. We need people that come from these disenfranchised communities to be elected to offices and accepted into the general economy instead of just cutting off entire generations of folks through incarceration.”
Final Thoughts
Photo Credit: House of Weird Perfection
As further revelation equips people with knowledge and understanding, the regulation and equitable change in the cannabis industry is something we can look forward to. May it tend to and help heal the wounds that the war on drugs and other systemic disparities have left on the legacies of Black and Brown people, as well as other disenfranchised groups of people within the cannabis community.
We don’t just want change. We fight for and expect it! We want to see the actual and factual definition of equity- in action- in social equity programs everywhere. We don’t just want to hear about it, we want equity, and we want it now!
Special thanks are extended to Kaliko and the MCBA board and team for putting ideas to work together so that we could all benefit from the revelation of this knowledge.
This content has been co-authored by Dom Hart. Feature Photo Credit: Vernon Clements
No Container Layering When Transplanting Bare Root Clones
Howdy my esteemed green peeps! Container layering growing cannabis is a TLO (True Living Organics) strategy that works on the same basic principles as TLO container spikes.True Living Organics Nutrient Spikes.What we are doing is SAFELY adding more nutrients to the containers. This is especially handy for older damaged growers like me that like to use smaller container sizes while still getting primo yields and the highest quality.
If you don’t use container layering now, you should. You can up your game considerably by starting to use this practice during every single transplant. Unlike TLO spikes, which I only use in my flowering containers, I use layering every time I transplant any plant at any stage.
I know dumping powerful solutions (teas/fertilizers) that drench entire containers (all roots and soil life) is never a good idea if you actually want to leverage the power of living soil. TLO style container layering adds some decent horsepower to your containers for sure. It also allows the roots to get used to these added nutrients, in a more isolated location/fashion, so as not to affect the entire root system (container). Like spikes, we always want to add layers where roots are NOT … Not yet anyway. Let’s get into it…
A Few of My Current Ladies Nearing Flowering Time
Container Layering—The How
Like I said above, you add layers where the roots haven’t been to yet. This allows the roots to approach the nutrient “treasure chests” gradually, adapting to the unique pH and other conditions locally where the layers are. The roots in concert with the established microbial life takes full advantage of the layers.
It is best to use nutrient sources that are also found in your soil mix when using container layering. This way all the microbial life in the soil is already familiar with the nutrient source(s) and will make quick and efficient work of them.
I have done many growing containers/plants side-by-sides with layers and no layers. It is quite obviously a bonus to your plants resulting in faster/happier/more vigorous growth, and with larger yields when used in flowering containers. This is also super-handy for clones you may want to keep fully healthy/happy in smaller container sizes for longer times. This is basically a 2-step operation here during any transplant. The 1st step is the bottom layer…
Bottom Layer
Lightly mist the inside of the containers before doing anything else.
Find locations on the floor inside the container you can put some nutrients down without having them just spill out of drainage holes. If this is very difficult you can always add a very thin layer of soil mix on the floor first before adding your nutrient(s).
Simply sprinkle down the nutrients you have chosen. Immediately afterwards add more soil mix up to the level you normally would before placing the new plant in.
I like to let these containers sit this way for a full 24 hours before I actually transplant into them. You absolutely don’t have to wait, and you can transplant immediately if you want to. I like to wait just to give all the soil life a chance to “get a grip” on the rich nutrient source and begin colonizing it. It’s all good either way, no worries.
Crab Meal Brings Very Cannabis Friendly and Exotic Nutrients Along With pH Buffering
Top Layer
The 2nd step is the top layer, this is not like a TLO top dressing. Top dressings are done differently. You will absolutely be wanting to use a mulch layer here (righty after putting down the layer) as well to get the most bang for your buck out of the top layer. You can mulch with bark, cannabis stems chopped up, dried banana peels chopped up, the possibilities are many. Don’t forego the mulch because it’s a huge advantage for the roots and the soil life—not to mention the general speed and effectiveness of the top layer.
Once you have backfilled the new container with the new plant in it, and before you add the mulch, you just mist the top of the soil a bit first.
Sprinkle down your chosen nutrients out around the container sides, mostly avoiding the top of the plant’s root-ball. You want to keep most of the nutrients only on top of the new soil you have just added.
Once you have your chosen nutrients all sprinkled down, you mist the top once again, then add your mulch layer on top. Boom, done!
Container Layering—The What
Choosing which nutrient(s) to use for your layers will depend partly upon when you may already know you need a bit more of. Say your soil mix is a bit weak where phosphorus (P) is concerned, so you would make sure whatever you use bumps up your P a bit. Now, part of this tricky-trick is also recognizing the local pH effects different nutrient sources will contribute. I like to balance that out a bit up on top and in the bottom layers.
3-Gallon Containers with Bottom Layer in Place and Some Soil Added
In a Typical 3-Gallon Container for Flowering…
Bottom Layer—1-teaspoon bone meal, 1-teaspoon crab meal, 1-teaspoon bird/bat guano.
Top Layer—1-tablespoon alfalfa meal, 1-tablespoon crab meal, 2-teaspoons bird/bat guano.
I really like using bird/bat guano in my mix and for layers as well. It has always seemed to me this addition enhances the terpenes in a profound way. The crab meal, and the bone meal are both pH buffers that tend to raise the pH while the other constituents tend to lower the pH.
I wouldn’t use things like gypsum, lime, rock phosphate, K-Mag (langbeinite), or other minerals in container layering, although a little bit of greensand contributes a lot and also buffers the pH upwards a bit as well. Basically, you can use whatever you want to when layering. Just don’t use too much, and make sure it is an organic all-natural (as in made by Mother Nature). You also really want to use nutrient sources here that are also found in your soil mix. This really gives the microlife a leg-up when it comes to utilizing these nutrient sources for the plants.
Summery
Alfalfa Meal Brings Balanced Nutrition and a Powerful Growth Hormone
Container layering is a real easy habit to get into doing, always, at every transplant. It has a huge payoff when it comes to overall plant happiness and vigor/health. Why wouldn’t you do this…? Is the real question, yes?
You could get fully Bohemian here and layer with rinsed chopped up kelp and something like dried/composted rabbit poop. You can use something extra simple like 1-part bone meal, 1-part blood meal, and 2-parts kelp meal. You could sub out ground pumpkin seeds for the kelp meal if you wanted to. Just do some research into whatever you want to potentially use.
There are a bazillion things you could use here in combination or even stand alone. My favorite granular chicken guano is perfect as a solo additive for layering containers because it also contains decent calcium levels which balance out the pH level of the guano decomposing. All-natural/organic dry nutrients that are NPK balanced would also work fine as a stand-alone layering product. Alfalfa and crab meal work excellent together as well. Just get into this habit and you won’t regret it.
Rev’s Classic Hash Bonging Face LoL
L8r G8rs
Boom! Here’s my TLO Book for more info on layers, spikes, and top dressings: Rev’s True Living Organics book, 2nd Edition! Swing by Kingdom Organic Seeds for a fine selection of healthy and exotic cannabis seeds. Well, I’m outty for now, but I’ll be back next Tuesday for another article here at SKUNK baybee.
I’m so close to finishing the new book now I can taste it, heh heh. It’s not the writing of it that is the most work, it is the constant rewriting–LoL. Time to puff a little hash … Happy Trails.
If the statement: it takes a village, had an image, it would be the image of the BLACK BOX PROJECT. Intentionally launched during black history month: February 11, 2022, the BLACK BOX PROJECT is a passion project led by the Olivia Pope of Cannabis, Ebony Andersen, who says: “We figured what better way to celebrate Black history than to make it.”
What is the Black Box Project
The BLACK BOX PROJECT was founded by Los Angeles-based dispensaries and brands to highlight the importance of social equity and inclusion in the cannabis industry. The intent is to support black-owned cannabis businesses while creating unity and support amongst the BLACK cannabis community.
The black box is loaded with black-owned brands out of California, and though the contents in the box are valued at $200, the black box is available for only $49.50. Ebony stated:
“The BLACK BOX PROJECT curates overlooked brands and highlights them so that those looking to support equity in cannabis can easily source products directly from equity-centered brands.”
Black-Owned Brands in the Box and Where the Black Box Can be Found
Please tell me about the inspiration behind THE BLACK BOX PROJECT?
“The inspiration for the box came from a brand collab centered around Black history month that went badly. In corporate America, white companies often use Black history month to pander to the Black community while failing to pay Black creatives and producers their worth. We have all had that experience where another cannabis brand uses our culture, products, likeness, and history to profit. It continues to be a problem within the cannabis community. We felt very exploited by the situation, among others, and felt it was time to introduce premium Black cannabis to our community at an affordable price.”
How were the brands included/selected?
“I am the Anna Wintour of THE BLACK BOX PROJECT! The original collaborations were selected based on their ability to meet demand. We looked at premium Black brands that could fulfill what we needed. That quickly changed when we realized we were overlooking the start-up cannabis brands. Essentially we ended up with two types of brands in the box; we have our Black cannabis OGs like Ball Family Farms, Viola, and Gorilla RX. And then we have our new break-out brands like House of Tyne, Biko, and Wyllow.”
What is the mission/ driving force of the BLACK BOX PROJECT?
“To highlight the importance of equity and inclusion in cannabis while creating unity and support amongst the Black cannabis community. It also provides an opportunity to encourage Angelenos to buy Black in February while introducing them to the quality and culture brought to the industry by Black-owned brands.”
Is the BLACK BOX PROJECT just a project, or, will this be permanent?
“We will see if the box becomes permanent, but it will be available next February and possibly for other culturally significant dates throughout the year. I have also been approached to curate boxes for other underrepresented groups such as THE BROWN BOX and THE PINK BOX. Nothing is confirmed yet, but we will see how it goes!”
Would the items in the BLACK BOX change?
“Initially, the idea was to have one box for Black History Month. But due to the OVERWHELMING support, we will have subsequent boxes. Adding new brands to the subsequent releases is intentional as Black, women-owned, and POC brands do not get the visibility they deserve in the space.”
Who designed the box?
“The box design was led by THE BLACK BOX PROJECT creative team with execution by Hera Ventures, JNF Creative, and Marqui Jordan.”
I’ll be reviewing the products in the Black box for a follow-up piece; is there an order of consumption that you recommend? Anything I should try first and/or save for last?
“I am a flower girl, so I have to say that my favorite products are the Wyllow pre-rolls. I would start there, and I would end with Daniel Larousso. It’s a heavy hitter, so I would save it for when you don’t have to be functional. I also think it’s really special that we got to launch House of Tyne, another Black woman brand, in THE BLACK BOX.”
Are you all hoping to see more of this type of collaboration across the country?
“Absolutely. I think it’s essential that we pull our resources and elevate our voices. THE BLACK BOX PROJECT shows how brands can work collaboratively to leverage relationships for culturally significant and profitable projects.”
Spain is one of the most unique places on earth when it comes to cannabis policy. It is no secret that Spain is an amazing place to be a cannabis consumer which is why it is a top cannabis tourism destination. However, most people are shocked when they learn that Spain’s cannabis scene is largely the result of lax policy enforcement versus sound public policy, as proven by the nation’s medical cannabis program (or lack thereof).
Cannabis is widely available in Spain, particularly in the Barcelona region, where hundreds of cannabis clubs are located, and we will be co-hosting the world’s largest cannabis superconference next month (ICBC and Spannabis). Yet, at best, access to cannabis is via a gray area of Spain’s law. Comprehensive legal and safe access to medical cannabis doesn’t exist in Spain. In fact, all of the medical cannabis that is licensed to be grown in Spain has to either be earmarked for research purposes or be exported out of the country. Fortunately, discussions are ramping up in Spain to put a better medical cannabis regulatory framework in place.
Subcommittee Meeting
Spain has a subcommittee called the Health and Consumption Commission of Congress, which is dedicated to, among other things, debating true medical cannabis legalization within the country. Technically, medical cannabis is legal in Spain. Yet, only in the limited instances of research and export previously described in this article. The subcommittee is meeting this week to discuss, reportedly for the first time, comprehensive medical cannabis legalization.
Before anyone gets visions of grandeur that something will happen right away, people need to temper their expectations. According to the subcommittee, the meeting is being described as “the first stone on this path.” The stated goal of the meeting is to determine what experts should be brought in to provide scientific evidence for the purpose of drafting a report that will later be provided to all national lawmakers in Spain. If all goes well, a new law could be passed by this summer. However, only time will tell if that proves to be the case.
A Regulated System Is Needed
Currently, most medical cannabis patients can acquire cannabis fairly easily in Spain, even if it’s not necessarily via means that are 100% legal. The current system in place, if you want to call it that, greatly benefits organized crime operations that are gladly filling the void left by a lack of a regulated system. That is far from optimal for medical cannabis patients.
Suffering patients in Spain deserve to have robust legal options from which to acquire their medicine. That involves completely legalizing cannabis clubs as well as establishing home cultivation rules and testing standards. Cannabis is decriminalized in Spain, and ‘personal cannabis’ is allowed in private residences. However, that is not nearly as good as some of the policies that exist in other countries in Europe. Lawmakers in Spain need to stop their infighting, stop clinging to failed public policy, and pass sensible laws and regulations to help as many suffering patients as possible.
The perfect storm has been building in California’s cannabis industry, taking an especially hard toll on legacy, sun-grown farms. The combined pressures of massive overproduction, unprecedented droughts, and wildfires, along with regulatory burdens, have conspired to create what many in the industry are calling an “extinction event” for small-scale, family-run farms.
While Proposition 64, and the legalization of cannabis in California, held the promise of greener pastures, many of the state’s craft farms were left to fend for themselves in an inequitable marketplace.
Regulations adopted in 2018 laid the groundwork for massive cannabis production that is currently far-outpacing demand in the state.
According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, licensed cultivators produce more than six million pounds of cannabis annually, even though Californians consume less than a third of that amount. While craft cannabis farms can be as small as 2500 square feet, few limits exist for the acreage or number of industrial-sized farms. Overproduction has caused a precipitous price drop for all cannabis sold in California, and the small-scale outdoor farms are getting hit hardest.
When you add onerous licensing fees, regressive cultivation taxes, and other regulatory requirements, craft farmers are struggling to survive.
“Taxes are without a doubt the greatest cost associated with the regulated market.” said Daniel Fink of Down Om Farms in Nevada County, California. “Being held to the same commercial regulations as farms with the benefit of economy of scale makes huge challenges for the smallest farmers,” continued Fink. “If small farms were regulated as agricultural, we would have a fighting chance.”
A large majority of cannabis in California is now dominated by large-scale, indoor and greenhouse mono-crop facilities, but the Emerald Triangle (encompassing Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties) is home to more than one-third of all cannabis cultivation licenses in the state, with over 1,700 licenses in Humboldt alone.
The Emerald Triangle is also where many legacy farms weathered decades of adversity during the era of prohibition, only to be squeezed out by the legal regime.
Many of the farms being affected by the current landscape are Sun+Earth Certified, upholding rigorous regenerative organic standards which go beyond USDA Organic requirements and include cover cropping, mulching, composting, and reduced tillage to increase soil vitality.
Such practices also eliminate a reliance on toxic pesticides and other chemical inputs and, through carbon sequestration, help reduce the cannabis industry’s extremely large carbon footprint. The health and environmental benefits of regenerative organic cannabis should be ample reason alone to preserve and protect these small legacy farms.
But their extinction not only impacts the lives of farmers tending the land but also spells the end of an era. Cannabis genetics that have been passed down over generations are being replaced by designer strains that fall out of vogue as quickly as they appear.
Cannabis grown in the Emerald Triangle and other California appellations carries with it the history of the modern cannabis culture and has a unique “terroir” that embodies the soil, topography, and climate in which it was grown, something that cannot be replicated by mass-produced, commodified cannabis devoid of heritage.
“We are undergoing a mass extinction of small, family-run cannabis farms, and this loss of diversity will be sorely missed once consumers realize the quality and terroir that is only possible on a small scale,” claimed Kila Peterson of Sweet Creek Farm in Guerneville, California, a Sun+Earth Certified farm.
“We are women-owned and run, and we farm where we live,” continued Peterson. “Because we own our land, we have that extra incentive to take great care of it. We go that extra mile with organic and constantly look at ways to close loops on our land. We teamed up with Sun+Earth this year to help communicate our integrity to our customers.”
The limited amount of retail opportunities in California is another externality many small producers and operators are facing. The cultivation rate and product availability continue to multiply, but the shelf space doesn’t exist to sell it all. It’s a buyer’s market, and the market is largely dictated by high THC potency and price point. Well-resourced entities are buying dispensary shelf space making it nearly impossible for small farm-owned brands to compete. Sun+Earth is working diligently to educate consumers at the point of sale about the devastating impacts of industrial cannabis and why choosing sun-grown cannabis can have a positive and direct effect on cannabis communities.
“We have to get the word out that earth-conscious cannabis is a better option for people and the planet,” said Judi Wood of Sun+Earth Certified Sol Spirit Farm in Trinity County. “We know this cannabis consumer is out there. They just have to learn that they have this option and understand how it benefits them.”
“Part of the barrier is cautious retailers not understanding that people will pay a little more for regeneratively farmed and sustainably packaged cannabis,” continued Wood. “If you buy organic produce and support your local farmers’ market, you should be buying Sun+Earth certified cannabis.”
The State of California has recently implemented modest recovery programs, but struggling farmers say the measures are not nearly enough to prevent their extinction.
In April 2020, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) announced that $30 million would be allocated under the umbrella of the Cannabis Equity Grants Program to help California cities and counties support low-income farmers and farmers of color. Then, in March 2021, GO-Biz announced another allocation of $15 million. However, the roll-out of equity grants to local jurisdictions has been slow and inadequate to meet the need.
In October 2021, the newly-formed Department of Cannabis Control unveiled guidelines and application requirements for $100 million in grants to local jurisdictions, proposed by Governor Newsom and passed by the legislature earlier in the year. With three-quarters of the state’s cultivation licenses still provisional, these funds are intended to bring more farms into annual compliance.
But many in the industry believe this funding is too meager and does little to address inequitable market competition and formidable regulatory burdens.
High on the list of demands are (1) waiving the cultivation tax for small-scale farmers and (2) placing a moratorium on new licenses to stem the flood of cannabis due to overproduction.
Overproduction may also become less of a problem once the issue of interstate commerce is addressed and legal cannabis states can freely exchange cannabis products without the threat of federal enforcement. But, unless federal legislation contains explicit protections for small farmers, they will continue to struggle and face extinction.
The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), federal legislation introduced by US Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), is an important proposal, but it falls short of providing protections for small farmers. Comments submitted on the CAOA by nonprofit New York Small Farma embody the importance of regenerative organic farming and the critical needs of small farmers. These comments are a blueprint for legislators and should be heeded if we hold any hope of sustaining small legacy farms for more generations to come.
We are at a crossroads in the cannabis industry. If we continue on the current trajectory, small legacy farms will become a thing of the past, replaced by mass-produced cannabis lacking in terroir, culture, and respect for the land. We must come together to lift each other up, unify and amplify each other’s voices, and provide sacred stewardship of this powerful plant.
“To survive in the new regulated market, we must stay true to our roots of natural farming and connect with those who truly care about the source of their cannabis,” said Fink of Down Om Farms. “Stewardship of land and care of community is the highest honor imaginable.”
Although DMT is listed as a Schedule I drug in the U.S, there is documented use of this “psychedelic” for various reasons. Schedule I is the government’s way of not allowing humans to treat their conditions with plants, with nature. An example of the ridiculous schedule is Marijuana, which has historical and research confirmed medicinal benefits, legal and/or decriminalized for recreational consumption in at least a third of the U.S, and is recognized and legal as medicine in over half the states in the U.S.
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, known as DMT and the “spirit molecule,” is described as a compound found throughout nature that has profound effects on human consciousness. The importance of it in life and nature is so profound that DMT is considered: nature’s neurotransmitter.
In an article that we published earlier this year in Microdose.Buzz, some of the benefits of DMT are documented as treatment for opioid addiction and treatment for anxiety and depression. In a DMT study by Johns Hopkins Medicine, the results revealed:
“In a survey of 362 adults, approximately 80 percent of respondents reported improvements in anxiety and depression after use. These improvements were related to more intense acute mystical effects during the 5-MeO-DMT experience and increases in rating of the personal meaning and spiritual significance of the experience. Improvements were also related to stronger beliefs that the experience contributed to enduring well-being and life satisfaction. These results were published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
The history of DMT is still being explored and discovered; however, it is noted that in western culture, DMT is noted to have been discovered in 1931 by Canadian chemist Richard Manske. It wasn’t explored for human consumption at the time, though. It was in 1946 that microbiologist Oswaldo Gonçalves de Lima, discovered DMT’s natural production in plants; and not until 1956 that Stephen Szara, discovered their hallucinogenic properties.
DMT Consumption, DMT Forms/Types, and DMT for Beginners Q&A with Henry Mariano
Photo: Henry Mariano’s first Ayahuasca Ceremony: Shipibo Tradition
Photo: Henry Mariano’s first Ayahuasca Ceremony: Shipibo Tradition
To learn more about DMT, I sat down with an experienced consumer and overall psychedelic educator and enthusiast; Henry Marianao. Henry is educated and/or experienced in/with:
Extracted NN DMT.
Self-facilitated vaporized (which was the 1st Psychedelic Henry consumed).
Facilitated vaporized NN DMT to family members.
Partook in 5 Ayahuasca (Oral NN DMT with MAOI ) in this year (2021).
Received 5 MEO DMT in this year (2021).
From knowledge/experience/observation, which version of DMT is best for a beginner? If they can both be good for a beginner, please explain.
“Everyone has different experiences with both compounds, so it’s hard to pin that answer down.
ORAL NN DMT: From personal experience, Ayahuasca (Oral DMT) was more progressive, calm, relatable to this earthly experience, and provided lessons that I can apply in my life. DMT helps me with personal relationships, soul purpose, and soul alignment. I would recommend this method for a beginner looking for a slow introduction to NN DMT.
Ayahuasca: My personal experience with Ayahuasca allowed me to see certain life events and directions I can take. I experienced a radical energy shift that made me sensitive to other people’s energies. If someone’s energy was not in alignment with mine, it was obvious, and adjustments had to be made in relation to distancing yourself from those energies. I also noticed more people telling me that they could feel my energy.
Vaporized NN DMT: Vaporized DMT was very fast-paced for me and my first psychedelic experience ever. It’s very rare that vaporized NN DMT is the first psychedelic taken in a person’s life. I had closed-eye visualizations consisting of morphing geometry and also an encounter with other “beings” that we do not encounter here on earth. Not much was relatable to the life we see here on earth, and audible and physical sensations consisted of feeling and hearing vibrations.
One clear message is that there is a possibility of interactions with “things” that are typically “unseen” on earth on a daily basis; God, spirits, aliens, whatever you want to label it. You can believe it was just a vision or your imagination because you took certain plants, and it only exists in your mind. You can also believe the plant medicine allowed you to see things that were always there but were hidden or unseen. Plant medicine can be thought of as a portal to the unseen.
Vaporized 5 MEO DMT: My first 5 MEO experience was also ten years after my first NN DMT experience. Lots of integration and growth between those two times. My experience was peaceful, with very little closed-eye visuals. Morphing clouds, in my case. Audible perceptions included hearing whispers in foreign languages from female voices.
I was facilitated in a group setting and was interrupted by another woman who had also taken the substance. She was screaming. At that point, I turned my attention to her and woke up to make sure she was ok. After speaking with that individual later in the day, she remembered singing songs in a peaceful way. Her internal experience was vastly different from her external experience that everyone was witnessing.”
Online sources refer to DMT as a “new” psychedelic. Is DMT new or just new to the conversation?
“Indigenous tribes have been facilitating this medicine for a long time, and they continue to help and facilitate people till this day. It is new to the media and is slowly gaining social acceptance in modern society. The fact is, people have been healed from a wide variety of ailments for the longest time. New to the conversation? It depends who you talk to. It’s important to note that proper integration is 80% of the healing involved. Merely taking the substance does not guarantee positive results.”
In your opinion, are there specific types of people/ certain medical conditions that can benefit from DMT?
“I have interacted with a wide variety of people with a wide variety of trauma, who have been positively affected by the various forms of DMT. They have suffered from mental trauma, social trauma, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and even racial abuse. I have seen these people process and react to their past in positive ways. Accepting what has occurred and moving forward into their future as new individuals not bound by their past trauma.
I have also seen people attending Ayahuasca ceremonies claiming huge breakthroughs but continuing to stay within toxic environments and also spewing out toxic behavior. Lots of work still needs to be done with the information gained during a ceremony. A question/consideration: are people willing to sacrifice the object or people in their lives that caused them illness in the first place? For instance, if you have trauma from your parents and they are always arguing and fighting, drinking Ayahuasca and returning back to that environment does not change a thing. How is the trauma received from parents in this case also affecting the trauma you give others, for example, friends and people in your work environment?
Integration of psychedelics is not only mentally processing what happened but also changing your environment so you can grow unobstructed—making the physical changes that can also affect your mind, mood, and soul.
In my case, I removed myself from anything not positively aligned with myself—business to personal relationships. I didn’t have a choice. I just didn’t have room for it in my life anymore, and I cut it off for the sake of happiness and peace.”
For someone wanting to consume DMT, do you recommend guided and/or group consumption; why/why not?
“I recommend an indigenous guided ceremony for Ayahuasca as ceremonies can last up to 10 hours. Indigenous music and music guidance are key. Vaporized NN DMT is not commonly offered by the indigenous tribes. Effects only last 10-15 minutes. I do not have much information on indigenous 5 MEO facilitation.
Group sessions have their positives as it is communal. Group sessions can also bring distracting behavior. Guided always for beginners. Non guided and self-administered for more personal inner work for the experienced.”
Are there any books/TedTalks/research that you recommend readers tap into?
“I would research testimonies of the people whose lives have been drastically changed for the positive. A simple internet search will yield a wide variety of experiences and testimonials. Youtube is great also.”
This piece was originally written and published in Microdose.buzz, a great place to learn more about psychedelics.
Author: Veronica Castillo, a Writer from Miami, with a pre-Cannabis and Psychedelics Industries background in insurance and human resources. Currently, she is a resident of the road covering cannabis, psychedelics, and plant lifestyles all over the U.S and soon abroad.
Hey-hey-hey! I thought before the new year gets too old here, that I would do a must haves for indoor growing article. It’s basically 4 things that can greatly enhance your cannabis growing and appreciation. In the photo above you can see my record setting 35-gram hash ball. Dry sifted and hand compacted, wowzerz baybee! I found a good trick concerning hash making that I’ll share below.
There are of course other things that are must haves when growing indoors, like fire extinguishers, working fire alarms, and excellent ventilation, etc. Today’s article just isolates four of my very favorite, and highly useful things that go along with growing cannabis indoors here in 2022. My favorite light for Flowering/Full-Term for 2022, by-the-by, is the 420h by NextLight.
There are 3 of these things that will make you a better grower, turning out consistently higher-quality flowers. Let’s start out with a twist to the way I make my dry sifted hash I have recently adopted after hearing from several of you having problems finding a sifting fabric. No worries, you’ll dig this, I sure do. Have a look at my article Making Hash from Cannabis the Easy Way, for more info on how I make dry sift hashish. Let’s rock and/or roll…
Great Balls of Hash!
The New Dry Sifting Twist for 2022
Whether you are growing cannabis indoors or outdoors, hash is always a great option for about the lower/inner 25% of the harvested plants flowers. The smaller flowers. And any decent trim from the killer flowers too. It all makes some dynamite hashish. Especially if you make seeds, or have a subpar harvest, making hash is the way to turn that “trash” into great stash. Okay, here’s the twist…
I use these hash-bags, 1-Gallon Set of 4 Screening Bags for Under 20 Bucks, now instead of the fabric I used before… What I do is, make two hash shaking zones on trays covered with parchment paper. I use a 1-gallon metal can (shaker can) for holding the cannabis matter and dry ice, so these bags are perfect. I just shake it one good time using the 160-micron bag onto one of the parchment-paper covered trays. Then I switch over to the 220-micron bag and shake a couple more times on the other parchment-paper covered tray.
This not only makes you two grades of hashish—they both kick ass—but also, because of the nylon nature of the fabric, the dry ice gets it super cold and so it attracts moisture fast. This can clog up the works. By switching between bags, you allow them to dry out between uses. You can also use a hairdryer really quickly to keep them dry as well. Boom!
Dual Chambered Compost Tumbler
The compost tumbler has been a must have for me growing cannabis indoors for sure, for around a decade now. Truth be told I would always have at least one of these whether I grew indoors or outdoors, they are just wicked good at soil recycling for container growing, as well as making very high-quality compost. Now… you guys can have the best of both worlds using the dual chambered version, if your composting routine doesn’t always synchronize up with your soil recycling routine timeline. I have a single chambered 36-gallon FCMP compost tumbler. Check out this dual chambered FCMP with 18-gallon capacity per side, below…
These dual chambered tumblers are easily had online and the one above is from Amazon. Now, I have a worm farm, so my whole composting and soil recycling dynamic runs a bit differently. However, if I didn’t have a worm farm, I would for sure try and snag myself up one of these dual chambered tumblers. That way you can do 15 or 16 gallons of recycling soil on one side and use the other side to collect cannabis leaves and stems, and kitchen leftovers for making compost. Things turn into compost UBER fast in these tumblers, especially if they are in direct sunlight for half a day at least.
“Ancient Chinese Secret” Soil Mix
Using one of these dual tumblers, you could combine recycled soil to compost 50/50 at the end of the process. Add some perlite, and you are good-to-go! Assuming your compost ingredients include cannabis matter and other diverse sources, like cantaloupe/melons/gourds, lime, egg or oyster shells, potatoes, pumpkins, used grounds tea/coffee, banana/peels, etc. Just good water… then—the “magic” happens.
A Must Have for Indoor Cannabis Growing: LED Lanterns
If You Are Growing Cannabis Indoors You Need LED Lanterns
This one is kind of situational, meaning that using these lifesaver LED lights will depend upon whether or not you are at your garden’s location during a power failure, or other electrical fuckery. Because if you have some plants flowering indoors and their lights go off unexpectedly, this is a sure way to get hermaphrodites. Depending on the duration of the outage—when the flowering lights are supposed to be on. Even 10 or 15 minutes gets iffy. After longer outages plants can get hermaphrodites, and mutant looking growth, like they are trying to vegetate again a little bit. Your resin production takes a hit at least. If there are hermaphrodites those can bone a whole garden easily with hermaphroditic seeds.
All you have to do during a power outage is light up your garden with LED lantern lights. I flower in tents, so I use one lantern per tent. In a larger bedroom sized garden a few would work fine. The plants just need to get some light, so they don’t wig out a bit. The lanterns supply enough light to keep the plants “thinking” it’s still daytime and the season is still the same. All is well, no wigging—wink.
An Indispensable Tool for Growing Cannabis Indoors: Bluetooth Thermometer/Hygrometer
Govee – Bluetooth Thermometer-Hygrometers are the Brand I GotYou Can See Your Data for Up to a Year in the Past
I recommend you absolutely get yourself some of these Bluetooth thermometers/hygrometers. The information you get from these devices, that is sent to your phone or pad, helps you enormously to dial in your grow ever so perfectly. These devices track temps and humidity for a year back. You can really get a grip on fine tuning your environment avoiding hot blasts, humidity onslaughts, and too chilly for happy plants temperatures. You can always look and see how things are trending in real time so you can tweak garden environments proactively.
I got the Govee brand of these thermometers/hygrometers as shown in the photo above. There are quite a few brands of these types of tools. I am very happy with these; they have been working great for about a year now in my gardens and I have three of them. Here’s the link to the ones I got: Govee Thermometer/Hygrometers on Amazon.
Another great feature these have is alarms you can set when temps/humid drop below or rise above your set values. Whatever device you have these connected to, your phone or pad or whatever, will alert you whenever anything is amiss, per your presets. On a hot day I can turn my extraction fan up higher, open my tents and rooms, or even employ a mobile A/C unit if I need to. The more ya know
I Place My Thermometer-Hygrometer About 6 Inches Above Plant Tops (The Yellow Arrow in the Photo Shows Its Location)
Afterword
You can see in the photo above where I place my devices in my tents. As a rule of thumb, I hang them under the lights about 6-inches above the plant tops. It’s always good to have a laser thermometer to dial in your settings perfectly anytime you change your Govee placement or plants grow taller. It’s an awesome combo baybee!
A Laser Thermometer is Another One of My Essential Tools Growing Cannabis Indoors
Springtime is right around the corner now—yay—and I am sure tired of wintertime, ugh. The new book is closing in on being finished now, shouldn’t be more than a couple of months before I am done with the manuscript. One thing is for sure, writing a book is way more work than you think going in, heh heh.
Rev Babbling at The Emerald Cup in 2013
If you want to get some great healthy and potent cannabis seeds swing by Kingdom Organic Seeds and grab yourself some of the new Red Russian Skunk seeds. I got the originals from an old buddy on my way home from The Emerald Cup in 2013 (see photo above). Also, if you are a TLO (True Living Organics) fan already, make sure you get a copy of my last book before the new one comes out, here: True Living Organics 2nd Edition by The Rev. Well, that’s it for today my green amigos, catch ya back here next Tuesday for another article. L8r G8rs…
REv
Crossword for February 2022 Baybee
I do a crossword about once per month here at SKUNK, FYI. Today’s crossword is a little challenging I think—moderately. It has some clues from this must haves for indoor cannabis growing article today. Other things too, but all cannabis related. There’s a link to the key below the crossword, in case you are not up to the challenge. Mhuhahah! (Dr. Evil voice)
“We are women-owned and run, and we farm where we live,” continued Peterson. “Because we own our land, we have that extra incentive to take great care of it. We go that extra mile with organic and constantly look at ways to close loops on our land. We teamed up with Sun+Earth this year to help communicate our integrity to our customers.”
